PJO #4 : The Battle of the Labyrinth - MISSING SCENES

You Just Saved My Arms From Falling Off (Mid-Chapter 2)

Percy sighed a breath of relief as Silena left the room, glad that he probably wouldn't have dish cleaning duty that night.

He turned to Tyson with a small smile. "You just saved my arms from falling off. You know that, right?" he asked, chuckling slightly. Tyson gave him a concerned look. "Arms would fall off?" he asked, cocking his head inquisitively. "Not literally" Percy clarified, sitting next to him on the bottom bunk. "But if you hadn't come in and cleaned, I probably would've gotten dish cleaning duty, and that would've sucked" he explained. It would've sucked even more now that he had chronic pain in his arms from holding up the sky, but that was beside the point.

"The room looks really nice" Percy said quietly, leaning against his half-brother. Tyson got a proud smile at that. "Room was messy. Me fixed it" he chuckled to himself as Percy playfully elbowed him. "Okay, in my defense, it's usually just me in here" Percy said with a smile. As difficult as it had initially been for him to realize that he had a Cyclops as a brother, he had grown to appreciate the taller boy. They were brothers, and Tyson was a pretty good one too.

"You have grey hair" Tyson observed quietly, pointing at the silver streak that ran through the demigod's jet black hair. Percy's smile fell at that. "I... Held up the entire sky" he explained solemnly. "It was only for a minute or so but it nearly killed me" he exhaled. Tyson frowned as he heard this. "Annabeth has one to match" Percy added. "She held it for a lot longer than I did. It's honestly a miracle she's even alive"

"Where is Annabeth?" Tyson asked, suddenly curious as to where the blonde was. "She's off... Somewhere" Percy replied with a shrug. "She's mad at me right now cause I told this mortal girl- Her name was Rachel, by the way- About half-bloods because she was curious" he explained. "That girl is so weird... She's just a mortal so far as I can tell, but she's able to see through the Mist- You know what Mist is, right?" A nod from the Cyclops. "Yeah, she can see through the Mist even better than I can, which is... Weird. She's weird"

Tyson pointed at the phone number scrawled out on his brother's hand, with the name Rachel written above it in sloppy letters. "Mortal girl?" he asked. Percy nodded. "Yeah, she uh" he chuckled. "She really wanted to know more but we kinda had to part ways so she wrote down her phone number" he explained with a small smile. He had such mixed feelings on that girl. On the one hand, she had saved his life twice now. On the other hand, she was annoying.

"You call her?" Tyson asked. Percy shook his head in response. "No. I haven't" he said with a sigh. "It's dangerous for us to make phone calls" the demigod explained. Tyson pointed at the small tub in the corner. "Water call, like you did when me in ocean" he suggested. "I might" Percy replied. They fell silent for a moment after that.

"Want to see forge?" Tyson finally asked. Percy smiled.

"Sure thing, buddy"